Boot and shoe.



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T 0 @ZZ wlw/ffl 55' may conccifn 5 Be it Mai; KARL ENGEL, a czen of the States, residing at Arlington, in the' counsj of 'iddesl and Sae of 5 BiassaChuset-S, mf invented Garmin mcent@- provsmens i e fmm'actme of Boots Curved parts in the u, This nenlon of boots ami mation 'vl downs 1w mpca on Serin he @pesant appcaton is is shown n BTO.

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Athinner lifts may be out from the less valuable portions. The construction described above, therefore, does away with the necessity for thicka expensive lifts and permits the utilization of a certain portion of the died-out counter which was formerly skived oti2 and discarded.

In the manufacture of shoes of this type the parts of the upper are assembied and the heetL molded into shape by a machine comprising a flat yoke which contacts with the upperaIOng the line 12 ot' 'the'turn and a wiping member which turns the upper outwardly over said yoke and exerts a conipressing action on the outturiied portion. 'In this operation the outturned end of the back sta),y 13 is forced against/"that portion of counter opposite to the depression 5 so that the olltturned margin of said counter `together with the outturned margin of the upper at this point is distorted as shown to makelrooni for the back stay and thereby bring the Aupper surface of the outturned lend of the back stay into the plane of the corresponding surface of the upper at either side of it. The result of the depressionfof this portion of the back stay is thus to render the edge of the lower part of the shoe about the hee portion of substantially uniform. thickness. i In order te make a smooth joint between the ends of the counter and the end of the inner sole the end of the inner soie is beveled as shown and the beveled end 6 of the counter is caused to extend into the V-shaped opening between the upper and the beveled end of the short inner soie.

Having thus described the invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: l. In a stitch down shoe comprising an upper having an outturned mtrgin and a back stay attached to said upper and simiiarly outmrned7 a counter having an outturnedXpoi-tion provided With a depression to provide space for the outturned portion of said stay. t

2. In @a stitch down shoe having a back stay provided with an outturned end attached to the upper thereof, a counter also attached to said upper and having an outturned portion, vsaid -outturned portion of said counter being distorted to provide space for the outturned end of said back stay.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my neme to this specification in the presence of tivo subscribing Witnesses.

y KARL ENGEL.' Vitnesses CHARLES W. CooPER, ALBERT A, SMITH. 

